Ferruccio Ferrazzi – The Horse Track in Villa Borghese
Ferruccio Ferrazzi (Roma 1891-1978) The Horse Track in Villa Borghese Oil on canvas, 73 x 102 cm Signed and dedicated lower right: ‘A Sigfrido Olivieri con schietta amicizia Ferruccio Ferrazzi)
Vittorio Zecchin – Angel
Vittorio Zecchin (Murano 1878-1947) Angel 1927 Polychrome and golden leaf gilded vitreus tesserae mosaic on wood panel, 315 x 60 cm Provenance: Brescia, Villa Perlasca, from the mosaic decoration of the chapel
Vittorio Zecchin – Credenza (sideboard), bench
Vittorio Zecchin (Murano 1878–1947) Credenza (Sideboard) 1920-1923 ca. Black lacquered oak wood with purpura arabesque engravings, 110.5 x 137.5 x 52 cm Provenance: Brescia, Mirko Lupezza collection. Bench 1920-1923 ca. Lacquered and painted wood piece of furniture, 148 x 134 x 56 cm Bibliography: I. de Guttry, M.P. Maino, M. Quesada, Le arti…
Giulio Bargellini – Study for Idyll (Self-Portrait)
Giulio Bargellini Florence 1875-Rome 1936 Study for Idyll (Self-Portrait) 1892-95 Oil on canvas, 21 × 38 cm Signed lower centre: “Giulio Bargellini” Provenance: Rome, heirs of the artist; Rome, Galleria dell’Emporio Floreale, 1982; Rome, private collection Bibliography: Pasqualina Spadini, Opere inedite di Giulio Bargellini: oli-pastelli-carboncini-studi di architetture e progetti per mosaici dal 1890 al 1936,…
Giuseppe Piccone – Boxeur
Giuseppe Piccone (Albisola Superiore, 1912 – Albissola Marittima, 1960) Boxeur 1930-35 ca. Provenance: Lombardy, private collection Wood, black paint, cm h. 120 x 82 x 39.5 cm Of the Boxeur by the Ligurian Giuseppe Piccone are known two versions, different for dimensions and pose of the figure. This specimen, the bigger in size, sculpted in…
Vittorio Zecchin – Boat’s wheels of Romagna
Vittorio Zecchin (Venice 1878 -1947) Boat’s wheels of Romagna 1915-20 ca., lean oil on panel, 63 x 63 cm Inscribed and signed backside: Timoni / Romagnoli / V. Zecchin
Alberto Martini – Vanitas with Self-Portrait
Alberto Martini (Oderzo 1876-Milan 1954) Vanitas with Self-Portrait c 1920 Pastel on paper, 54 × 46 cm Signed “AM ALBERTO MARTINI” Provenance: Padua, private collection Alberto Martini, the great imaginative designer and symbolist illustrator, who interpreted with aristocratic dandyism the figure of decadent artist, later recognised as precursor of surrealism, also experimented with more accurate and realistic visions in…
Achille Funi – Self-Portrait
Achille Funi (Ferrara 1890-Appiano Gentile 1972) Self-Portrait 1942 Watercolour and pencil on paper, 380 × 310 mm Signed bottom left: “A. Funi” Exhibition labels on the back of the original mount: Galleria del Milione, Milan, 1942, 3069/3; Galleria dei Serpenti, Rome; Finarte, Rome, 1984. Provenance: Rome, private collection After the experience of Futurism, filtered through Cézanne and Cubism, he adheres to the general Return…
Pietro Benvenuti (attributed to) – Portrait of the sculptor Ferdinando Pelliccia (Carrara 1808-1892)
PIETRO BENVENUTI, attributed to (Arezzo 1769-Florence 1844) Portrait of the sculptor Ferdinando Pelliccia (Carrara 1808-1892) in the Carrarese academic uniform with the models of the Cyparissus and the Creation of Adam 1835 circa Oil on canvas, 72 x 58 cm Provenance: Italy, private collection
Giannino Marchig – Portrait of the Painter Gino Parin
Giannino Marchig (Trieste 1859-1933) Portrait of the Painter Gino Parin (pseudonym of Federico Guglielmo Jehuda Pollack, Trieste 1876- Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany 1944) Circa 1920-25 Oil on panel, 44,8 × 47.7 cm Signed top left: “GINO PARIN ESEGUITO DA GIANNINO MARCHIG” Provenance: Italy, private collection Enfant prodige, Marchig trained in the complex and cosmopolitan Trieste of the early twentieth century at the ateliers of Gino Parin and…